Brave Browser for ad-free YouTube and speed

[Retro]

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Brave Browser for ad-free YouTube and speed - Give it a try

Lots of people watch YouTube videos and I, in particular, post lots of YouTube videos on this site.

And the ads are annoying, very annoying. They irritate the hell out of me, in fact, just so disruptive and recently they've started becoming longer (some are 15 seconds v 5 seconds) and more intrusive.

I recently tried Brave for watching YT videos and it does what it claims to do: let you watch YT videos completely ad-free for free without having to buy YT's expensive subscription. How it...

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[Uncrowned]

I tried Brave and wasn't a huge fan. Plus most of my YouTube watching is done on my phone so that all falls apart anyway.

 

[Retro]

You can get Brave for the smartphone too where it also plays without ads.

Personally, I use Brave only for watching videos.

 

[FF]

I'm interested in the speed aspect of Brave. As for ads, I use Ublock Origin, an open source adblocker for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc. and have never had a problem. I haven't tested it on Firefox, though.

 

[Retro]

I might just try Ublock as Ad Block Plus certainly isn't 100% effective.

 

[FF]

The problem with Adblock Plus is their "acceptable ads" program.

 

[AllThingsTech]

As per https://www.techspot.com/news/10823...d-blocker-loophole-tightens-restrictions.html , Youtube are starting to clamp down on ad blockers and more strictly enforce the ban against them?

Is Brave browser still effective for Youtube videos? If so, I don’t believe it will be for much longer…

 

[Retro]

No, it hasn't been for over a year now. I guess I really should take down this resource.

Interestingly, they were always being funded by Google, so I wonder what arrangement they had with them to block their ads and why Google would allow it. That arrangement must have ended at some point.

 

[AllThingsTech]

No, it hasn't been for over a year now. I guess I really should take down this resource.

Interestingly, they were always being funded by Google, so I wonder what arrangement they had with them to block their ads and why Google would allow it. That arrangement must have ended at some point.

Suggestive of some profit drop?

 

[Retro]

Who knows, could be anything.

 

[AllThingsTech]

Ugh, Youtube have now gone as far as to trial non-skippable 30-second ads and that ads will begin appearing for Premium Lite users!

YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto

YouTube is testing a series of new unskippable 30-second ads that will appear far more often for viewers.

www.dexerto.com

@Retro I hope that if you decide to delete this resource, these latest posts won’t be deleted. Perhaps it’d make sense to split this discussion on Youtube from post #7 into a new thread ? Just a suggestion

 

[Retro]

30 seconds, damn, that's offensive.

I've updated the resource to clarify that Brave no longer blocks YouTube ads.

 

[AllThingsTech]

30 seconds, damn, that's offensive.

Tell me about it! It’s taking the piss!

I've updated the resource to clarify that Brave no longer blocks YouTube ads.

I’d recommend you update the thread title too given that guests have permission to view the discussion but not the resource itself, and they may find this misleading. Up to you though - just my opinion

 

[Retro]

I'm fine with the title as it is.